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Adrian Nuta works for Sphinx Technologies as Lead Support Engineer, joining the Sphinx team in march 2012. Prior to Sphinx, Adrian worked as an all-round consultant on LAMP stack for various businesses.

Worked over seven years with Spil Games and contributed as a developer, IT Architect, Database Administrator, Database Specialist and now head of Database Engineering to the growth of the company.
Spil Games is rapidly growing and transformed itself from an internet startup to a world leader in casual gaming.

Aurimas began using MySQL for various demanding web projects in 1999, while working as a system administrator. In 2002, he moved to a dedicated server hosting startup to work as a performance engineer - performance optimization service was key to this company's success. Years later, in 2007 he joined a MySQL consulting company Percona where he has been working as a MySQL performance consultant ever since.
During his career, both as a system administrator and as performance engineer, Aurimas got familiar with many different technologies by actually using them in different contexts. He always knows the right tools for the task. In addition to MySQL performance optimization, his key areas of expertise include: MySQL High Availability, full text search, content caching techniques, and MySQL data recovery.

Colin Charles works on MariaDB at SkySQL. He has been the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB since 2009, work ranging from speaking engagements to consultancy and engineering works around MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known on the conference track having spoken at many of them over the course of his career.

David has been a Linux systems admin for around 12 years, and generally in different roles - development, network admin, support, DBA, and more.
He is a Fedora user and a fan of puppet (not so much the hat - nor Bert & Ernie, however). As time allows, he contributes to the EPEL packages for Openstack. He has an interest in infosec, and so is generally paranoid about security. He is also familiar with metasploit, sqlmap, john, oclHashCat, and has also written a few python tools.
Living in Whitchurch, United Kingdom, he holds a 2nd dan black belt in Ju-Jitsu and, with his Father and Uncle, helps to teach at a local non-profit club with ages ranging from 6+. He also teaches computing to students at a local school using the Raspberry Pi as the platform running Raspbian. He is proud that they're starting to grow beyond basic networking and logical programming patterns to get the students thinking about solving problems with basic robotics

Over 20 years in the IT industry, focused mainly on databases and systems performance, with the past several years working full time on MySQL Performance at Oracle. Previously 15 years at the Sun Benchmark Center in Paris (now Oracle, currently OSC) working on customer's workloads performance and scalability optimizations, including various tender competitions. Previously at the Informix Benchmark Team in France. Author of the dim_STAT Performance Monitoring & Analyzing tool, and actively publishing MySQL Performance related articles at http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog.

At the age of 7, Dimitri received his first computer, since then he has felt addicted to anything with a digital pulse.
Dimitri has been active in IT professionally since 2003 in which he took various roles from internal system engineering to consulting.
Prior to joining Percona, Dimitri worked as a Open Source consultant for a leading Open Source software consulting firm in Belgium.
During his career, Dimitri became familiar with a broad range of open source solutions and with the devops philosophy.
Whenever he's not glued to his computer screen, he enjoys travelling, cultural activities, basketball and the great outdoors.
Dimitri is living with his girlfriend in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium.

QA Director at Continuent
I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past 25 years I have worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, object oriented programming, system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Perl, Python, SQL, Lua, C, Bash, and good speaker of C , French, Spanish, Java. I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

Ivan is CTO at SkySQL Ab, where he also leads the engineering team and he is responsible for the vision and evolution of new database solutions and services. Prior to that, Ivan worked at MySQL AB / Sun / Oracle for 6 years. An IT veteran close to 30 years of experience, he has been founder and CTO of various companies, journalist and author of technical books and publications.

Jaime’s MySQL focus is on query and schema optimizations and solutions for high scalability. He is a certified MySQL DBA, DEV, and Cluster DBA, as well as SCJP, SCWCD and Zend PHP Engineer. His mother tongue is Spanish, but he also speaks English and French.

Jeff Sosa is the Senior Director of Product Management at Virident. He joined Virident in 2011 to lead the product management efforts for all company products, including the company’s expansion into MLC products and the FlashMAX II Product Line and related software. Prior to Virident, Jeff was Sr. Director of Product Management at Fusion-io, responsible for the ioDrive product line and related management software, and DataDomain as Director of Product Management where he drove the expansion of DataDomain products into the Archiving space. Jeff has also served in product management roles at Pathscale(QLogic), Network Appliance, and Brocade Communications. Jeff started in software engineering and engineering management roles, including over a decade at Tandem Computers. He holds a BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Engineering from the California State University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Johan works for Severalnines, a company focused on building fast, scalable, and highly available solutions. Prior to Severalnines, Johan was working at Ericsson/MySQL/Sun/Oracle and was the Principal Consultant and lead of the Cluster consulting group.

John Goulah has been working in New York City over the last several years for a number of web sites in both technical and management roles, as well as the co-founder of several startups. Having spent much of his youth touring in rock bands and hacking from the road, he is no stranger to crowds, be it a smoke filled room or presenting to the company board. He strives for non mundane tasks and has automated himself out of his last few endeavors, which has landed him in his current role as an Engineer at Etsy, the leading marketplace for handmade goods.

Kenny is currently a Consultant at Percona. Bitten somewhere in the late 90s by the open-source bug, most of his spare time was spent working with Linux & OpenBSD servers.
Eventually, after school ended, Kenny turned into a linux system administrator and performed that role at various companies.
Before joining Percona, he worked at a large social networking company in Europe as DBA & Puppeteer.

Liz joined Percona after spending 5 years as a performance consultant for a University research lab in Belgium. During this time, she spent most of her days measuring and trying to reduce the impact of virtualized environments all across the software stack. Optimizing software became something of an obsession, and MySQL found its special place in her heart soon after.

Luis has been working with Information Systems since 1999. He worked as a developer, system administrator, and has been dealing with Relational Databases since 2001, when he started as a certified Oracle DBA.<p>Luis is a proud member of the <a href="http://london.pm.org/">London Perl Mongers</a> since 1999. He is also the author and maintainer of a handful of <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~lmc">irrelevant Perl Modules</a>. He <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/luismottacampos/">worked</a> for <a href="http://www.ripe.net/">RIPE NCC</a>, where he had the opportunity to manage the <a href="http://whois.ripe.net/">RIPE Whois Database</a> and maintain the software behind it.<p>Since he joined <a href="http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com/">ebay Classifieds Group</a> in 2010 he has been working exclusively with MySQL databases, servicing ebay Classifieds Group business units in more than 13 countries.<p>When time allows Luis blogs about practical Database Administration in his personal blog, <a href="http://deafbysalami.blogspot.com">Deaf by Salami</a>, watches "House, MD" and Science Fiction movies, and travels around the world making <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/luismottacampos/sets/">photos of landscapes and people</a>.

Luís Soares is a Lead Software Engineer and the MySQL Replication Team lead at Oracle. His research interests include replication technologies, dependable systems and high availability. Before joining the MySQL team, he was both a post-graduate student and a researcher at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he designed and implemented group-based replication protocols. Before that, he worked for a Portuguese multi-national company as a system analyst.

Marco Tusa had his own international practice for the past twenty seven years.
His experience and expertise are in a wide variety of information technology and information management fields of application and cover research, development, analysis, quality control, project management and team management.
Marco has move to Percona as manager of the Consulting Rapid Response Team on October 2013.
Marco Tusa has moved from Italy to Ottawa in 2011 and had being working at Pythian as Cluster Technical Leader for the MySQL technology until September 2013.
He has being working as employee for the SUN Microsystems as MySQL Professional Service manager for South Europe., and previously in MySQL AB.
He has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation since 1994, leading the development of the Organization’s hyper textual environment.Team leader for the FAO corporate database support.

Mats Kindahl is Senior Principal Software Developer in MySQL @ Oracle. He is the architect and implementer of several features (mostly replication features), including the row-based replication available in 5.1 and the binary log group commit available in MySQL 5.6 and is a regular presenter at MySQL conferences.
Before starting MySQL he earned a doctoral degree in the area of automated verification of distributed systems and worked with implementation of C and C++ compilers.
Mats is currently leading the MySQL Scaling and High-Availability effort covering the newly released MySQL Fabric and the MySQL Applier for Hadoop.

A professional writer for over 15 years, Martin 'MC' Brown is the author and contributor to over 26 books covering an array of topics, including programming, system management and web technologies. His expertise spans myriad development languages and platforms – Perl, Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Shellscript, Windows, Solaris, Linux, BeOS, Mac OS and more.
The combination has resulted in expertise in web programming, systems management and integration, and XML and DocBook technologies for writing and publishing documentation. A former LAMP Technologies Editor for LinuxWorld magazine, and a regular contributor to ServerWatch.com, LinuxPlanet, ComputerWorld and IBM developerWorks. As a Subject Matter Expert for Microsoft he provided technical input to their Windows Server and certification projects. He draws on a rich and varied background as founder member of a leading UK ISP, systems manager and IT consultant for an advertising agency and Internet solutions group, technical specialist for an intercontinental ISP network, and database designer and programmer – and as a self-confessed compulsive consumer of computing hardware and software.
In his pre-writing life he spent more than 10 years designing and managing mixed platform environments, developing the rare talent of being able to convey the benefits and intricacies of his subject with equal measures of enthusiasm, professionalism, in-depth knowledge and insight.
Most recently he has concentrated on building high quality user-focused information through his books, articles, and MySQL and the MySQL groups within Sun and Oracle. In addition to producing the content, he has also developed the documentation systems to improve he quality and efficiency of the documentation being written.
MC is currently the Director of Documentation for Continuent and is responsible for building the documentation and supporting information.

Peter joined the European consulting team in May 2012. Before joining Percona, among many other things, he worked at Sun Microsystems, specialized there in performance tuning and was a DBA at Hungary's largest social networking site. He also taught many Oracle University MySQL courses. He has been using and working with open source software from early 2000s. Peter's first and foremost professional interest is performance tuning.
He currently lives in Budapest, Hungary with his wife and son.

Peter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling.